Good two train turret clock by and inscribed Gillett & B...

Hammer

£2,600

Good two train turret clock by and inscribed Gillett & Bland, Croydon A.D. 1874, fitted with a 3.5" diameter brass dial also signed Gillett & Bland, Steam Clock Factory, Croydon, within a blue painted cast iron frame, 21.75" wide, 12.25" deep, 18.75" high (max) (with six slotted weights, four solid weights, five pulleys, winding handle and rod, cylindrical pendulum bob but no pendulum rod); also with a bronze bell and striker inscribed Gillett & Bland, London, with attachment angled fixing bars above
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**Provenance in the vendor's own words:

'The Gillett & Bland Clock has been in the family since it was purchased brand new by my great great grandfather and was designed and incorporated within his magnificent and imposing Victorian Manor called ‘The Red House’ which was in Duppas Hill, South London. It is the first time this clock has come to market, since new
 As a highly skilled mechanical engineer, he treasured the clock so much that he deliberately designed the structural aspect of The Red House clock tower to enable it to be (semi) easily removed if and when the need ever arose
 The clock was indeed carefully/professionally removed some eighty years later when the house was sold (following bomb damage during WWII) and my father then installed it into his elaborate courtyard roof, where it sat for another two decades above his superb collection of historic/racing cars'